Ugwu

Borrowed from Igbo úgwú (“mountain, hill”), a topographic surname.

Ugwu (plural Ugwus)

1. A surname from Igbo.
   • 2016 December 14, Michael Hann, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 July 2018:

     On Tuesday, Buzzfeed published a long piece by Reggie Ugwu, looking at how a variant of instrumental electronic music had become the favoured soundtrack of the “alt-right”, the US-based far-right movement. Within hours, a website whose strapline declares it is “destroying Jewish tyranny” had picked up on the piece.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ugwu is the 70645^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 277 individuals. Ugwu is most common among Black/African American (97.11%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ugwu”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.